Re: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: LC_MESSAGES

[Douglas Coup <dcoup at obj-sys dot com>]

On 1/9/2019 1:14 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 1/9/19, JonY  wrote:
> > On 1/8/19 9:26 PM, Lee wrote:
> > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
> > > has a note for LC_MESSAGES:
> > >    The functionality described is an extension to the ISO C standard.
> > >    Application developers may make use of an extension as it is
> > >    supported on all POSIX.1-2017-conforming systems.
> > >
> > > i686-w64-mingw32-gcc doesn't have LC_MESSAGES defined.
> > > Is that an oversight, something missing in windows, or .. ??
> > Windows MSVCR isn't POSIX nor ISO C compliant, so you shouldn't be
> > referring to opengroups, only against MSDN.
> What's a Windows MSVCR?
>
> Since the same program compiled with cygwins' gcc has LC_MESSAGES
> defined, I was guessing it was just a library thing and maybe it just
> hadn't been implemented in the mingw libraries yet.. but it sounds
> like it's not an oversight & Microsoft needs to support LC_MESSAGES
> before i686-w64-mingw32-gcc will.  Is that about right?
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
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MSVCR = MicroSoft Visual C Run-time (I think)

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